{"id":54305,"date":"2026-03-29T08:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=54305"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T08:54:08","slug":"ioc-reinstating-gender-tests-a-disrespect-for-women-caster-semenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/03\/29\/ioc-reinstating-gender-tests-a-disrespect-for-women-caster-semenya\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC reinstating gender tests &#8216;a disrespect for women&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s two-time Olympic 800 metres champion, Caster Semenya, said on Sunday that the IOC\u2019s reinstatement of gender verification tests for the 2028 Los Angeles Games was \u201ca disrespect for women\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The former hyperandrogenic athlete also expressed her disappointment that the measure was taken under the leadership of the new IOC president, <strong>Kirsty Coventry<\/strong> of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-causes-harm\"><strong>\u2018Causes harm\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cFor me, personally, for her being a woman coming from Africa, knowing how African women or women in the Global South are affected by that, of course, it causes harm,\u201d Caster Semenya said during a press conference in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p><em>This developing news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#IOC #reinstating #gender #tests #disrespect #women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s two-time Olympic 800 metres champion, Caster Semenya, said on Sunday that the IOC\u2019s reinstatement of gender verification tests&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54307,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54305\/revisions\/54307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}